BUS DRIVER'S STORY * UK - Mike Wormall, the bus driver
London,UK -The Times On Line, by Matthew Parris -March 9, 2009: -- I’m at the wheel of a big, red, double-decker London bus, but I’m driving it in Firsdon. It’s just started to snow and must be dusk because the light is fading. I switch on the headlights — good, that makes a difference — and activate the wiper... Checking both rear-view wing mirrors I shift the gearstick into “drive” and swing the vehicle nervously out of the bus-stop bay... You need a balance between being “alert, always, yet switched off a bit too”.... At the wheel of a public service vehicle, defensive driving was required; “but” (emphatically) “not hesitant. I don’t live in fear of accidents. If I did I’d stop. You need to drive with a degree of confidence, to drive well.”... Most memorable experience: A woman got on and stayed to the end of the route. She then refused to get off. She was the sole carer for her husband, who had Alzheimer’s. The journey provided an escape and she travelled on my bus for the next few hours... (Picture: Mike Wormall, a bus driver for 16 years, pictured at a bus garage in Tottenham, north London)Labels: bus drivers stories
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